Paul Dickman

Paul Dickman is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB) at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He has been employed there since 1999, serving as deputy head of department, head of the MEB Biostatistics group, and programme director for the Master's Programme in Biostatistics and Data Science. His research focuses on developing and applying statistical methods for population-based cancer survival analysis, particularly relative/net survival estimation and modeling.

Education:

• PhD in Statistics (1997), University of Newcastle, Australia
• B.Math (Honours Class 1) (1992), University of Newcastle, Australia

Research Interests:

• Cancer epidemiology
• Survival analysis
• Statistical methods for register-based studies

Awards:

• Statistical Promoter of the Year 2023

Grants and Fundings:

• Swedish Cancer Society grants for developing statistical methods in cancer epidemiology
• Swedish Research Council grant for register-based research

Advising and Mentorship: Supervised 8 doctoral students as primary supervisor and 18 as co-supervisor, covering topics like cancer survival, health technology assessment, and epidemiology.

Labs/Teams: Leads the Statistical methods in epidemiology – Paul Dickman's research group, focusing on biostatistical methods for cancer survival analysis and policy applications.